Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made dark ...

Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made dark ...

Jul. 26—ALMA — In a quiet field of abandoned blueberries and shrubby brush in south Georgia, Cera Jones released hundreds of tiny parasitic wasps into the thicket and watched them fly away, following ...

The insect I have photographed here only has two wings. Bees and wasps have four wings. Obviously, this insect is a fly. More specifically, it is a fly known as a flower fly. There are many different ...

GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Sen. Gary Peters is calling for funding in the federal farm bill to help fight an invasive fly that has been damaging fruit crops in Michigan and across the ...

A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly. Mississippi scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies, Nature ...

Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown. In both cases warmer flight muscles likely speed ...